#catgate flap for UK government turning sour for gay couple at centre of it | Care2 Causes

Since the UK Home Secretary Theresa May uttered those hostage to fortune words on Tuesday October 4 at the Conservative Party Conference “.. and I am not making this up” the British media and both opponents of the government as well as some within her own party have been making hay with her subsequent error — the supposed ‘illegal immigrant ‘ who could not be deported because “he had a pet cat.” Her claim, that a foreigner had been allowed to stay in the UK because of the human rights issues involved with owning a cat, was literally laughed at by one of her colleagues — the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke — and led to endless pussy-related headline and pictures like the one above, which a Labour MP happily retweeted. Prime Minister Cameron even made a joke about it in his speech winding up the conference. The claim in a speech was, May admitted, sourced solely from newspaper ...